"That's all? This Lumba Pirates is too embarrassing for pirates, isn't it?"

Malinfando, in the small courtyard of Skyler's residence, watched Nurkic rummaging through the archives for two whole days before finding out the information about Brooke from the discarded information. Skyler had a look on his face.

Speechless.

Brooke, nicknamed Nose Brooke, belongs to the Lombard Pirates, and Brooke's final bounty is 33 million beli. In the first half of the Grand Line, he can be regarded as a quite "achievable" pirate.

In particular, Brooke's identity is only that of acting captain at the highest level, and he has never claimed to be the captain of the Lombard Pirates, so it is not bad to receive such a high reward.

But... that was for other pirates. The strength that Brooke showed later clearly exceeded the level of the 33 million bounty. In terms of strength alone, he was worth more than 500 million beli.

As for other dangers, such as his experience and his "threat" to the world government, these will only increase the reward for him. In Skyler's view, Brooke has a base of 500 million Baileys, and the upper limit is immeasurable.

It's just that the World Government underestimated the musician who would become one of the Straw Hats in the future, and his off-kilter behavior made it difficult for people to judge Brook's strength, so the bounty was not raised as much as it should be.

But such a person only has 33 million Baileys. Don't talk about inflation. After all, the fund pool used by the World Government to pay bounties is fixed.

In other words, the value of pirates will not rise in large numbers. Even if it occasionally happens for one or two years, it can only mean that the pirates who emerge in these one or two years are stronger than those in other years.

Excluding this reason, then... second growth? Although Brooke is now in his seventies, he was nearly ninety years old when he was found by Luffy and others in the original work.

But... before he turned into a withered skeleton, Brooke was just a mortal, and he also ate the Underworld Fruit, which was not helpful in the battle. It seems reasonable that his strength increased after his death.

But... it's still too much. However, after seeing the information today, Skyler also understands why Brooke's or the entire Lumba Pirates' reward order is so low.

"Nurkic, go back and rest. You haven't slept since the barbecue party, right?"

Skyler looked at Nurkic and found that he had obvious dark circles around his eyes. He originally wanted to ask him to go with him to see the imprisoned Brook, but now he changed his mind.

After hearing this, Nurkiqi was stunned for a second before nodding. He had been immersed in the database for the past two days, but he was very tired. After all, the management method used by the navy more than thirty years ago was different from that of now.

Nurkic had to learn an old database management method to improve his speed in searching for information. At his speed, it took him two full days to find it.

At this time, he was actually extremely tired, and his reaction was a beat slower than usual. When Skyler asked him to go back and rest, Nurkic agreed.

He is not a masochist, especially now that there is no danger, there is no need to hold on.

After Nurkic left, Skyler flipped through the information again, with a speechless smile on his face, then stood up, left the small courtyard, and headed towards Crescent Harbor.

Arriving at Crescent Bay, I boarded my warship. At this time, there were not many people on the warship. Most of them went on vacation. I heard that many people organized groups to go to the Chambord Islands.

Now, except for some people who don't like to join in the fun, there are only three fur warriors, Pedro.

After all, Pedro and the others... really don't have much spending power. From the time Nurkic recognized them and agreed to join the Navy, the Zhanye detachment has been at sea, and there is no time to create identities for them.

Therefore, they were still working as unpaid sailors as before, but with members of the Zhanye detachment taking them along, they ate and drank in the navy canteen in Marineland, and no one cared about it.

But their pockets are indeed empty, let alone consumption. The three fur tribes can only live on the warship and cannot go anywhere. As for their younger brother Bebo...

Bebo was taken by the navy sisters to play in the Shampoo Islands.

However, Pedro and the others did not complain. Even on vacation, when Skyler arrived, the three of them were still cleaning and maintaining the warship.

Skyler nodded to them, then entered the cabin directly and walked below the deck.

The second floor below the deck is usually a training room, but it can be transformed into a prison at any time. In other words, it was originally set up as a temporary prison. It is just the fighting style of the Zhanye detachment, and there are not so many prisoners.

Therefore, in order to maximize the use of the second floor, Zhanye detachment transformed it into a training room. At this time, the training equipment was still there, but there was a cage in the center.

A pair of withered bones were shackled and sitting in a cage. If someone didn't know better, they would have thought that a prisoner had been imprisoned for too long and turned into withered bones in the prison after his death.

Skyler slowly approached, looked at Brooke who was bound by the Sea Tower Stone, and said, "Brooke."

"ah?"

Brooke moved for a moment, and then his empty eyes turned in Skyler's direction. Maybe he was used to seeing it this way.

When Brooke saw that the person coming was Skyler, he raised his right hand with bones, scratched his head with the bones on his fingertips, and said, "Ms. Navy, can you let me see..."

"You are tied up by the sea tower stone. If you are torn apart by me again, you will really die, right?"

Skyler's words made Brooke stop his gentlemanly greetings and instead asked: "Ms. Navy, what do you want me to do with you?"

"Wow~"

Skyler threw the information into the cage and said: "This is your information, right? You are too embarrassed, right? Being offered a reward for performing a pirate song is really... hilarious."

This is why the Rumba Pirates were offered a bounty for the first time. They were offered a bounty for publicly singing songs praising pirates within the territories of countries that are members of the World Government.

Of course, this was only the reason for the bounty at the beginning. Later, with the battles with "peers" and the display of strength when evading the navy's pursuit, the members of the Lombard Pirates continued to increase the bounty.

Brooke did not answer immediately, but picked up the information on the ground with his white fingers. Looking at the dry, yellowed and extremely uneven information, he slowly stroked it with his finger bones.

It can be seen that this is a document that has been preserved for a long time and must have been stored in different places and environments, otherwise there would not be so many signs of aging.

"Can you tell me...how many years have passed?"

Brooke flipped through the information and looked at the blurry photos of his companions. His voice was trembling, but he didn't cry again.

"It was 1508 years ago on the Hainan calendar. What year on the Hainan calendar was it when you disappeared?"

After Skyler answered, Brooke paused again. This skeletal body could easily get stuck. After a moment of silence, Brooke said, "It should have been 36 years ago. It turns out it has been so long."

After Brooke finished speaking, he slowly put the documents together and said: "How is the sea now? It depends on the situation... Your navy is still there, so those madmen in Hatchinos should have failed, right?"

"Hachinos? What is that?"

Skyler frowned, not really understanding what Brooke was talking about. Brooke scratched the broken bone on his forehead and continued: "It's the island where a group of pirates gathered, and it has a name... Rong thought about it

think...

It seems to be Beehive Island, right? I still remember that there was an amazing young man there at that time, who said he wanted to overthrow the world government. We were quite shocked when we saw it on the news. What was his name?"

Brooke began to think again, and Skyler came to his senses and understood who Brooke was talking about, so he said: "Rocks D. Gibek."

"Yes, that seems to be the name... How is he? At that time, many pirates said they wanted to help him overthrow the World Government."

Brooke didn't realize at all that there was anything wrong with talking about overthrowing the World Government in front of a Marine. Fortunately, he met Skyler, a Marine who looked down on the World Government from the bottom of his heart.

After listening to Brooke's words, Skyler said: "Defeated by Navy Monkey D. Cap."

In the Battle of the Valley of the Gods, it was always advertised that Garp defeated Rocks alone. Even if he knew the truth, Skyler did not tell Brooke.

Brooke's name mentioned by Skyler triggered some memory, and he said: "Garp, I seem to remember that many people were discussing it at that time.

There's Garp, a new recruit in the navy, and Roger, a newbie pirate. Their battle seems to have been on the news.

How are they two doing?"

"Roger became the Pirate King, but died ten years ago. Garp is now a naval hero, Lieutenant General, and... my father."

Skyler's voice gradually decreased, but Brooke did not pay attention, but said with emotion: "Have those young people actually experienced so much? Time flies so fast, and I have become an old skeleton.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh~”

Smiling, Brooke suddenly lowered his head and said sadly: "The Pirate King...the one who conquered the sea? He must have completed the voyage of the Great Channel, right?"

Skyler understood the reason for the sadness in his words, because they had promised a whale back then that they would complete the voyage of the Great Channel and then go back to pick up the whale.

Therefore, Skyler did not pick up Brooke's topic, but said directly: "The whale is still there. If I can't catch you, I might let you go, and then you can go back and see it.

"

"Rabu? It should still remember us, right? Otherwise, why would it stay there..."

Brooke was alone there thinking, but Skyler turned and left. She didn't like to see sad people, especially this person came from the heart, and... he was also a pirate.

"Bang~"

The door was closed again, and Brooke, who was undisturbed, once again curled up and reopened the information. Looking at the blurred and indistinguishable photos, tears kept pouring out of his eyes.

Skyler returned to the deck and stood there for a long time with a frown on his face. Suddenly, as if he had made up his mind, he headed straight towards the headquarters building.

Arriving at the headquarters building, Skyler went straight to the Marshal's office. Sengoku did not close the door, but Skyler still chose to knock on the door.

"Come in."

Skyler just raised his hand and before it landed on the door, Seng Guo made a sound. Looking at Skyler who walked in, Seng Guo said with some dissatisfaction: "Little Skyler? Come in. I've been back for two days, right?

Don't you dare come to me to report your work?

Do you think I will stop you from fighting that young man? Haha~ I was young back then!"

Sengoku was in a good mood. Although there had been many accidents since he took over Sora's job, with the efforts of him and the entire naval system, he still worked hard to regain the advantage little by little and continued to benefit from the chaos.

And Skyler can be said to be one of the heroes. Although half of the accidents were caused by Skyler, without Skyler, although the troubles would be much less, the benefits would also be much less.

Therefore, after learning that Skyler had an appointment with Mihawk, Sengoku was also troubled, but thinking about it, it seemed to be nothing. After all, which young man did not have the idea of ​​defeating everyone of his generation.

Skyler has it, he has had it before, it can be said that everyone has it, but only a handful can do it.

Skyler had the opportunity and the ability to do it, and Sengoku had the idea of ​​stopping it at first, but after thinking deeply, he no longer resisted, and instead thought about how this matter could bring benefits to the navy.

Warring States had long known that Skyler had returned to Marineventor, but he did not summon him. The reason was because he had not thought about how to benefit from this matter.

Because the only thing he thought about recently related to Skyler was this matter, so at this time, he also thought that Skyler was here for this matter.

But Skyler was stunned and said, "What are you talking about? Why do you think I won't dare to come to you because of that matter? I'm afraid you'll stop me?"

Skyler said, his expression became very strange, as if he was saying, "Who are you? Are you in charge of my business?"

In an instant, the familiar madness when facing Skyler and Garp came back!

Warring States Beard's eyebrows kept trembling, as if suppressing his anger, his smile completely restrained, and he asked stiffly: "Then why did you come to me?"
To be continued...